“Our life is our only chance...”

“In life we have to size up the chances and calculate the possible risks and our ability to deal with them and then make our plans accordingly.”

“The confusion is not my invention. We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being aware of the confusion. It is all around us and our only chance now is to let it in. The only chance of renovation is to open our eyes and see the mess. It is not a mess you can make sense of.”

“Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and our memory.”

“Much as we wish, not one of us can bring back yesterday or shape tomorrow. Only today is ours, and it will not be ours for long, and once it is gone it will never in all time be ours again. Thou only knowest what it holds in store for us, yet even we know something of what it will hold. The chance to speak the truth, to show mercy, to ease another’s burden. The chance to resist evil, to remember all the good times and good people of our past, to be brave, to be strong, to be glad.”

“…Perhaps this momentary life of ours is only the light that divides our infinite origin from our infinite end. ”